GOSH whenever I see threads about cosplay I'm just filled with so much nostalgia and the feeling of missing a part of my life I've left behind LMAO, dramatic I know but true nonetheless. I LOVE cosplay so much but I've retired since I'm currently living overseas for studies and costumes here are expensive (I also don't know anyone in Cali to go to cons and cosplay with me so hfasjfhk)
I've had A LOT of cosplays that I'll write down in a spoiler at the very end, and I bought all of them (either premade or custom) because I have 0 idea about sewing and stuff. I do often make my own weapons and accessories though, like Shinoa's scythe, Hanayo's 7 Goddess staff and Midare's tantou among other smaller trinkets (I've made Osomatsu-san's Chibimi costume though!). Even though I have lots of cosplays, only few I managed to wear out to cons haha, most of them were left unworn before getting resold, or I just wore them at home to test out and take pictures of. I didn't - and still don't - really like the cosplay community back home. It's all good and fun until pictures get posted online and judgement sets in. It's pretty sickening to see strangers (that doesn't even cosplay at that) comment on people's pictures nasty stuff about them like "I guess *character name* overate" "Where's the boobs?" etcetc. Just.. comments a lot on the physicals and sometimes even the clothing quality or material. Though I'm lucky I've never been a victim of that, seeing that THAT was the community I was involved in just cut my desire to cosplay by half.
Another thing is I'm not really fond of getting pics taken, but I've met some photographers who were really... pushy about asking me to let them take pics of me. I'm asian and I was brought up in a kinda conservative home (LOL) where it's kinda impossible to let the photographers come home to pick me up and drive me to the photoshoot location, and driving myself there is also pretty hard to do because we only have 1 car and that's used by my mom who works. Even knowing my circumstances a lot of them just keeps asking again and again and it just becomes.. annoying. That's more me than anything though haha.
There's this one convention that happens annually (..I think. I've never gone because it's far from me) where they always have a photo booth set by the mods of the event that have photographers on standby to take pics of cosplayers. They'll later post the pics to facebook. The comment section there are always... pretty cancerous to look at.
I agree that cosplaying - by itself - is just a TON of fun though! A lot of my friends now I've met from the cosplay community T0T <3 Either online or on RL conventions, it's always nice finding people that share similar interest with me and there's just this instant connection from there~
My cosplays (in no order):
Vocaloid:
Rin (Himitsu Keisatsu, Meltdown), Luka (Senbonzakura, JBF)
Love Live:
Umi (School uniform (Summer & Winter), Idolized Marine, Idolized Flower Bouquet, Idolized Kimono), Eli (Idolized Animal), Nozomi (Idolized Animal), Hanayo (Idolized Marine, Idolized 7 Lucky Goddess)
BNHA:
Tsuyu, Ochako, Deku + I WANT TODO SO BAD cries
Touken Ranbu:
Midare, Kashuu
Owari no Seraph:
Shinoa, Mika
Osomatsu-san:
Osomatsu, Ichimatsu, Chibimi
Voltron:
Keith, Pidge
Haikyuu:
Kenma, Kiyoko
One-offs:
Hinami (Tokyo Ghoul), Mio (Onmyoji), Tomoyo (Card Captor Sakura), Homura (Madoka Magica), Junko (Danganronpa), Yurio (Yuri on Ice), Qiu Tong (Tamen de Gushi), Kagura adult ver. (Gintama)
+ I feel like I'm missing a couple but can't make sure because I deactivated my fb hahaahfaksfk
ps your cosplays are really nice!! <3 Your monika is so damn cute hfjdfh. I was so close to cosplaying Junko from DR but sold the cos to a friend before I got the chance to even try it on haha and the rest's a pipe dream. I've also always wanted to cos persona T0T!!! Right now I really wanna do Jin Ling or Mo Xuanyu from Mo Dao Zu Shi or Hyakkimaru from Dororo (I've gotten pretty interested in crossplays haha).